Potential Titles: Card

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Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

The card of prudent lore - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"

Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"

Whose slick fingers cheated cards and pockets - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Cards that defy arithmetic - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Trade rumors like cards - brian g. gilmore "the lansing negro"

Playing at cards with Death - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

Too soon to throw in the cards - Randall Mann "Realtor"

Play cards at the devil's table - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Thy cunning can but pack the cards - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

And send for the season a card of admission - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Cards packed for storm's play - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"


Flaws stacked like baseball cards - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"

My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"

No calling cards await - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Cardboard.

Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

With the economy of an index card - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"

Postcard.

And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"


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